Inspired by my local Starbucks in Swindon which Cat and I have enjoyed cups of steaming coffee (and various other forms of coffee heresy) with good books. Something of an ode to times to come. This is for you, Cat.
Lonely in Starbucks
Verse 1
G D/F#
The clock’s running slowly,
Em7 G/B Csus2
As coffee-laced minutes fly by
G D/F# Em7
and though I’m reading my favourite book
G/B D Dsus4 Csus2
there’s something that’s not, quite, right
Em7 Csus2
A fa-miliar someone is missing
Em7 Csus2
And that space in the chair to my right
G D/F# Em7
Blows the dust from my tenderest memories,
G/B Csus2 D G
Leaving me lonely in Starbucks to-night.
Fill: (G, D/F#, Em7, Csus2) x 2
Verse 2
G D/F#
That espresso I ordered is cooling,
Em7 G/B Csus2
I guess I got lost in my thoughts
G D/F# Em7
The book that I brought is just sitting by the napkin
D Dsus4 Csus2
That the nice Starbucks waitress just brought
Em7 Csus2
To my table with a smile and a notepad
Em7 Csus2
‘How’s the coffee, do you fancy a bite?’
G D/F# Em7 G/B
But even the offer of millionaire shortbread
Doesn’t keep me from being,
Csus2 D G
lonely in Starbucks to-night.
Verse 3
G D/F#
I nibble the edge of my shortbread
Em7 G/B Csus2
As I down the es-presso in one
G D/F# Em7 G/B
Before noticing that trying to do both at the same time was,
D Csus2
in a simple word, dum!
Em7 Csus2
So I'm trying to mop up my lap now,
Em7 Csus2
While wringing out my favourite book
G D/F# Em7
Yet I’m still feeling lonely in Starbucks,
G/B Csus2 D G
Especially now with all these funny looks...
(Spoken: Hey, what’re you looking at? Never seen a guy wearing his coffee?)
Verse 4
G D/F#
So I’m sitting here in my Starbucks
Em7 G/B Csus2
All toasty, though little bit damp
G D/F# Em7
With a piping hot caramel mac-achi-ato, mach-iato, mac-a-hee-yato,
G/B
D Dsus4 Csus2
my loyalty card all rubber stamped.
Em7 Csus2
And though the chair to my right is still vacant
Em7 Csus2
It won’t be long before she re-turns
G D/F# Em7
And we can once again share that cappu-cino
G/B
Ameri-cano, frapuccino, mocha-frocka-lato
Csus2 D G D/F# Csus2
or what-ever one it is that she yearns fo-----or
G D/F# Csus2 G
that she yearns for-----or
